How Do You Mean, My Bluetooth Watch Is Running Slow?

March 19 2011 by Ellie Opas in Loan Analyst |No Comments

Reimagineering the Wristwatch Before we even start, I need a Cash Advance Loan so I can buy myself a MetaWatch. Yes, they are out, the first generation of the “the connected watch”, the latest electronic gadget to hit the streets. This version has Bluetooth, but the long-term vision is to give the watch wireless capability to be the hub of every Internet-ready portable device you own: phone, laptop, tablet. The MetaWatch will be “the mobile Wi-Fi hotspot on your wrist”.

Too small? At first, I thought that so little information could be displayed on the watch’s face, meaning on the small, scrollable window at the top and another one at the bottom, that it seemed nearly useless. But it’s enough for alerts, able to notify the wearer, for example, “when you’ve got 4 more e-mails, 3 Facebook updates and 10 Tweets.” Buttons on the watch could be programmed to dispatch canned responses.

Fossil Has Fossil, the watch’s developer, tested the concept on focus groups or done other market research? Does it have definite plans to bring it to market? It’s not clear. Fossil declined a request for an interview or for comment. Marshal Cohen, chief retail analyst of the NPD Group, does not see the product’s appeal. The MetaWatch, he said, “was the right idea, five years ago.” “But we now have a communications hub: the smartphone,” he added. “Technology has passed the MetaWatch by.”

Watches Over all, the casual-watch market in the US has hardly shriveled. According to NPD’s data, the industry had sales of about $2.35 billion in 2010, up 4 percent from 2008. In those two years, sales were up 33 percent within the 35-to-44 age group and 104 percent for those 65 and older. Sales to the 18-to-24 age group, however, fell 29 percent. And Mr. Cohen says he doesn’t think that many of today’s young adults will ever adopt the watch-wearing habit.

The disappearing watch Catherine Moellering, executive vice president at Tobe, a retail consulting firm, does see a new interest in watches among 11-to-17-year-olds, but she says it derives from novelty. “The watch had disappeared so completely to these young consumers that today they could discover watches as if they had never been around before,” she said. Still, she said, this inexpensive accessory has uncertain prospects of leading to a lifetime habit. Watches have always been a fashion accouterment as well as a utilitarian instrument. But Ms. Moellering sees young consumers paying less attention not only to watches, but also to the entire world of fashion. Fashion “is not as exciting as technology,” she said. “No store at the mall is as full as the Apple Store.”

I want one I gave up wearing a watch years ago. I rely on my phone, or my car, my computer to keep me on time and the system works quite well. In an emergency I ask my wife. Now I want one of these new gadgets. Attached is my AdvanceLoan.net application for a Cash Advance Loan; kindly deposit money in my bank account.

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